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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization | Arthur Herman

If you find philosophy boring I encourage you to read about Peter Abelard's steamy love affair and the tragic conclusion. It's pretty wild. #nonfiction #history #philosophy

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LeticiaToraci

The Just City | Jo Walton

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This was surely original food-for-thought, and out of my comfort zone. I want to read more by this author for sure.

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GingerAntics

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein

Anyone else still struggling to review this one? It‘s been over a month, we are starting our next book‘s discussion TOMORROW, and I still don‘t have a handle on exactly what this was.
#PlatoAtTheGoogleplex #RebeccaGoldstein #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie SAME. 10mo

kspenmoll Have no idea just what to say! 10mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @kspenmoll at least it‘s not just me. I‘m thinking it‘s a pick… I‘m tempted to just mark it a pick a move on. lol 10mo

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Awk_Word_Smith

Coffee with Plato | Donald R. Moor

Wish I had had this mug when I actually worked in an office. It just doesn‘t hit as hard over Zoom. 😂

wildwoodreads I love it! 11mo

ReadingOver50 Where did you get this? Love it 😍 11mo

Awk_Word_Smith @ReadingOver50 Death Wish Coffee‘s website. I don‘t love their roast but I adore their marketing and swag. 😂 11mo

Awk_Word_Smith @wildwoodreads 💕 11mo

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TheBookHippie

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

This book was strange but good!
As always thanks to our leader and our group!
#DeadPhilosophersSociety

GingerAntics

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GingerAntics

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein

This book was a real trip for all of us. This might be the most important conversation we have about this book.
#PlatoAtTheGoogleplex #RebeccaGoldstein #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie This book was a trip. Most of the time I was WTF. However. It made us think and made us question ourselves so that in itself is worth it to me. It was very strange and almost irreverent at times but I think that was the point? Confront ourselves rather than hand us answers. We must know ourselves how to search for truth. And we must also be open to change know better do better. So many people get stuck in this is how it is and never veer from it. 12mo

TheBookHippie I think this is accurate “Above all, my Plato is the philosopher who teaches us that we should never rest assured that our view, no matter how well argued and reasoned, amounts to the final word on any matter. And that includes our view of Plato.” (edited) 12mo

TheBookHippie What‘s next to read?! I very much like having philosophy as a regular read! 12mo

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The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women

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kspenmoll How to think like a woman

HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN: Four Women Philosophers who Taught Me how to Live a Life of the Mind

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kspenmoll @TheBookHippie @GingerAntics These are 2 previous ideas been on my radar. Have not read reviews-see above comments (edited) 12mo

TheBookHippie @kspenmoll I‘m up for anything! This is in my list

What Is Existentialism?

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kspenmoll @TheBookHippie That sounds great too! 12mo

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GingerAntics

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein

What about science?
#PlatoAtTheGoogleplex #RebeccaGoldstein #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie More. Religion is set. (Most of them) and religion is exclusive. Philosophy is inclusive. Science should be a partner to philosophy and spiritual (non religious). 12mo

kspenmoll @TheBookHippie said it perfectly! 12mo

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GingerAntics

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein

#PlatoAtTheGoogleplex #RebeccaGoldstein #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie I think the minute we stop questioning and being philosophical is when dictatorship wins. We are easy to control without philosophy. 12mo

kspenmoll I think it is vital to our world- we need to keep questioning ourselves & it is a scary thought to think@of life without its expansive inclusive thought processes. 12mo

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GingerAntics

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein

I‘m going to reserve my comments on this one for the discussion. 😏
#PlatoAtTheGoogleplex #RebeccaGoldstein #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie 😵‍💫 12mo

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GingerAntics

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away | Rebecca Goldstein

Ah, the ultimate question of philosophy! This harks back to a philosophy essay in the NYT that one philosophy professor where I used to work would assign toward the end of the class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opinion/sunday/chimps-legal-personhood.html
#PlatoAtTheGoogleplex #RebeccaGoldstein #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll

TheBookHippie I think no. It‘s not just us who are human. Human can be humanity and that applies to many living things IMO. Those poor chimps/monkeys. Let them free! 12mo

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